Matthew Charles Benwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 2008791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Charles Benwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Benwell |
| SIGNATURE | BENWELL M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1336-751X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 282 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Young people’s emotional and embodied encounters with everyday militarism at the UK’s Armed Forces Day
The UK government’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review emphasizes the significant role public engagement activities such as Armed Forces Day (AFD) play in inspiring future generations and increasing recruitment into the armed forces and the defence industry more broadly. In contrast to existing literature, this article foregrounds the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of young people (aged 16–17) before, during, and after their engagements with …
Teaching hopeful political geographies through field trips
Fieldwork is a pedagogical tool that sets geography apart from most other cognate social science and humanities disciplines. How can it be used to teach hope? This paper discusses this using the example of an annual undergraduate trip to the divided city of Nicosia. It argues that the trip’s focus on possibilities for reconciliation both helps obviate what might otherwise become the danger of an academic version of “dark tourism,” and introduces …
Domesticating the UK 's Hostile Environment: Forced Migrants' Lived Experiences of Making ‘Home’
In this paper, we analyse the lived experiences of forced migrants in dispersal accommodation in the UK, contributing to understandings of the policies and politics of the hostile environment immigration regime in relation to the domestic sphere. More specifically, our research addresses the relative dearth of work exploring the intimate lived experiences of forced migrants by considering how the asylum regime shapes understandings of home and co…
Disorientation and Asylum-Seeking Youth: Examining the Emotional and Embodied Impacts of the UK Asylum System
Disorientation is a critical emotional and embodied dimension in the slow violence of the UK government’s asylum policies. This paper focuses on young asylum seekers in Newcastle-Gateshead, UK and examines their everyday experiences of the “politics of disorientation”. We demonstrate how the effects of overlapping bordering practices can result in dynamic disorientations that ebb and flow but nevertheless endure in the lifeworld of asylum seekers…
An assemblage approach to performances of sovereignty through Gibraltar's hosting of the 2019 International Island Games
This article examines performances of sovereignty using as its entry-point the 2019 International Island Games (IG) held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. We do so by applying assemblage theory to scales, actors, materialities, and practices that have been under-considered in existing work on assemblage in political geography, to illustrate the ways sovereignty was exercised and experienced, as well as challenged, impeded, and negot…
Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Youth in European Cities
Research about the lived experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee youth can evoke powerful emotions for those involved. Young people who escaped perilous situations often bear strong emotions linked to their experiences of migration and displacement, as well as their encounters with disorientation, insecurity, isolation, discrimination and racism in unfamiliar contexts in the host society. Such emotions and emotionally charged places can be chal…
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory
Research from political geographers has increasingly identified the diverse actors, practices, and performances of diplomacy, challenging narrow conceptions that had tended to associate them with the state alone. The following paper engages this plurality directly through, on the one hand, its focus on young people as diplomatic actors and, on the other, the diplomacy of a British Overseas Territory (OT)—the Falkland Islands—a polity characterise…
Veterans, Families and the Domestic Geopolitics of Remembering War
This paper makes a key contribution to emerging debates at the intersection of domestic geopolitics and critical military studies by focusing on how veterans and their families experience memory and the commemoration of war. Veterans of the Malvinas War in Santa Fe, Argentina, framed the ‘next generation’ – encompassing their daughters and sons – as central to sustaining memory of the 1982 war and interest in the contemporary geopolitics of the s…
The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’: Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum
Around the globe, people seeking asylum are subject to ever-increasing levels of securitisation, surveillance, hostility and violence. In the UK, successive Labour and Conservative governments have sought to create an increasingly ‘hostile environment’ for people without leave to remain in the country, generating and perpetuating anti-immigrant sentiment in the process. This paper centres attention on the implications of this politics of hostilit…
Geografías posthumanas en Patagonia-Aysén: Umbrales, Orillas E Intersecciones Entre Animal ∩ Humano
El presente trabajo se interesa en constatar los procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización de los agenciamientos humanos-no humanos en Patagonia-Aysén. Por lo mismo, importará concentrarnos en la co-producción que implica el enjambre superficial de sus asociaciones y desde donde aflorarán, entre otros, los cuerpos del puma, la vaca y sujetos que acá llamaremos fronterizo y ambiental. Sus valores y sentidos, como nos interesa mostra…
Diplomatic Memories: Remembering the Falklands/Malvinas War Through the Diplomatic Practices of Argentina and the Falkland Islands
Studies of memory in relation to the Falklands/Malvinas War have typically focused on interrogating narratives, practices and performances associated with its memory within different national contexts (predominantly Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK). Far less attention, however, has been placed on how memory of the war is summoned on the international stage, in diplomatic settings like the United Nations (UN). This paper analyses specif…
Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. The special issue highlights the diversity of practices of cultural production in response to the war and its legacy. The articles examine: how the war has been remembered in Britain since 1982…
The 40 th anniversary of the Falklands War: A dialogue
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. This significant milestone will be commemorated with a plethora of events in the Falkland Islands, Argentina, and the UK. One of these, the Falklands Forty Schools Competition, funded by the Falkland Islands Government, will see a national competition for young people (aged 16–18 years) in the UK that will encourage them to consider why the Falkland Islands matter today. With the editorial ass…
Interrogating Green Discourses in Patagonia-Aysén (Chile): Green Grabbing and Eco-Extractivism as a New Strategy of Capitalism
This paper argues that in Patagonia-Aysen (southern Chile) nature discourses and neoliberalism have a close association. The current discourse of "green" development is presented as a capitalist practice, a renewed form of colonization that creates a narrative around the need to protect this pristine environment because it is a "Reserve of Life." To explore these complex processes further, the paper presents fieldwork undertaken from 2017 to 2019…
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: New terrains for research, analysis and action
The growing climate crisis has shown how children and young people can be a political force to be reckoned with. While Greta Thunberg and many other young climate activists from around the world personify this force, there is another – largely hidden – story to be told about the everyday practices that young people adopt, in our homes, in our schools and in local communities to respond to environmental concerns. This issue brings together leading…
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories: A comparative view
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Stitching together the nation's fabric during the Chile uprisings: Towards an alter-geopolitics of flags and everyday nationalism
Going back to school: Engaging veterans' memories of the Malvinas war in secondary schools in Santa Fe, Argentina
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people: The Liverpool riots, 1981 and 2011
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
Everyday invasions: Fuckland , geopolitics, and the (re)production of insecurity in the Falkland Islands
Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film …
The emotional geopolitics of contested peace: The austerity crisis and the Danish minority of South Schleswig
In 1920, the Treaty of Versailles attempted an innovative solution to the Danish–German boundary dispute, known as the ‘Schleswig-Holstein question’. Two plebiscites asked the populations which state they wished to be governed by, and although the conflict was far from resolved by these votes, the subsequent century has witnessed the stuttering but gradual progression from war to a ‘negative’ and subsequently a ‘positive peace’. However, austerit…
Bringing the Falklands/Malvinas Home: Young People's Everyday Engagements with Geopolitics in Domestic Space
This paper draws on recent research examining feminist and everyday geopolitics to focus on the relatively neglected domestic sphere as a space where geopolitical events like the Falklands/Malvinas war are learnt, (re)produced, remembered and contested by young people. It presents qualitative data drawn from interviews with young people from Argentina (Río Gallegos) and the Falkland Islands (Stanley), locations with intimate connections to the 19…
Going Underground: Banal Nationalism and Subterranean Elements in Argentina's Falklands/Malvinas Claim
This article calls for consideration of underground elements that have been typically overlooked or unseen in debates about the nation and banal nationalism. The materialities and (re)presentation of elements such as earth, sand and rock have the capacity to be affective, contentious, to embody intimate memories of conflict and to reinforce national territorial aspirations. These subterranean elements have been ‘nationalised’, bathymetrically map…
Introduction to: Researching Everyday Geopolitics in Latin America
Geopolitics has a somewhat chequered history in Latin America (and, in particular, the Southern Cone), given its close historical associations with geopolitical thinking utilised by dictatorial military regimes (e.g. Kelly, 1997; Kelly and Child, 1988). The classical geopolitical traditions and logics that tended to dominate regional scholarship in the twentieth century continue to influence contemporary debates. Nolte and Wehner (2015: 33), in a…
Race, place and young people in the age of Brexit
From the banal to the blatant: Expressions of nationalism in secondary schools in Argentina and the Falkland Islands
Interrogating Green Discourses in Patagonia-Aysén (Chile): Green Grabbing and Eco-Extractivism as a New Strategy of Capitalism
This paper argues that in Patagonia-Aysen (southern Chile) nature discourses and neoliberalism have a close association. The current discourse of "green" development is presented as a capitalist practice, a renewed form of colonization that creates a narrative around the need to protect this pristine environment because it is a "Reserve of Life." To explore these complex processes further, the paper presents fieldwork undertaken from 2017 to 2019…
Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: Young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands
Young people's geopolitical subjectivities are heavily informed by past events in ways that have not been sufficiently acknowledged in the existing literature on youth geopolitics. This paper demonstrates how work on memory can be brought into dialogue with critical geopolitics to identify the assemblage of socio‐spatial practices that shape how young people learn about geopolitics. It interrogates what memories and their attendant landscape mani…
Argentine territorial nationalism revisited: The Malvinas/Falklands dispute and geographies of everyday nationalism
Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute: Creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: New terrains for research, analysis and action
The growing climate crisis has shown how children and young people can be a political force to be reckoned with. While Greta Thunberg and many other young climate activists from around the world personify this force, there is another – largely hidden – story to be told about the everyday practices that young people adopt, in our homes, in our schools and in local communities to respond to environmental concerns. This issue brings together leading…
Young people's everyday landscapes of security and insecurity
Debates about 'security' rarely feature children or younger people, whilst research with children and young people seldom focuses upon issues traditionally found within security studies. Building upon long-standing debates about political geographies of youth and political participation as well as feminist geopolitics and emerging discussions about children's and young people's geopolitics, we chart young people's everyday landscapes of security …
More Unfinished Business: The Falklands/Malvinas, Maritime Claims, and the Spectre of Oil in the South Atlantic
Challenging Minority World Privilege: Children's Outdoor Mobilities in Post-apartheid South Africa
Whilst the notion of children's movement has been examined across diverse settings in the minority world, explorations within majority world contexts have remained more sporadic. This paper contributes to an emerging body of literature offering new perspectives on mobility which crossover with, and in some instances challenge, those understandings drawn from the minority world. The manipulation of mobility, central to the existence of the aparthe…
Considering nationality and performativity: Undertaking research across the geopolitical divide in the F alkland I slands and A rgentina
This paper explores the substantial challenges of doing research with citizens living in nation‐states on different sides of a geopolitical dispute. It draws on an on‐going research project being undertaken in A rgentina, the F alkland I slands and the UK focusing on tensions in the South Atlantic over the status of the F alkland/ M alvinas I slands. Geographical research that looks to examine the impacts of geopolitics on everyday lives is incre…
Going Underground: Banal Nationalism and Subterranean Elements in Argentina's Falklands/Malvinas Claim
This article calls for consideration of underground elements that have been typically overlooked or unseen in debates about the nation and banal nationalism. The materialities and (re)presentation of elements such as earth, sand and rock have the capacity to be affective, contentious, to embody intimate memories of conflict and to reinforce national territorial aspirations. These subterranean elements have been ‘nationalised’, bathymetrically map…
Rethinking conceptualisations of adult-imposed restriction and children's experiences of autonomy in outdoor space
This paper calls for more sensitive understandings of children's experiences of autonomy and restriction in outdoor space. The study with children and adults living in a suburban area of Cape Town, South Africa, suggests that the imposition of adult structure and surveillance on childhood should not be automatically perceived as negative. The children's experiences were more nuanced and must be contextualised with reference to the predominant con…
Celebrity geopolitics
Stitching together the nation's fabric during the Chile uprisings: Towards an alter-geopolitics of flags and everyday nationalism
Bringing the Falklands/Malvinas Home: Young People's Everyday Engagements with Geopolitics in Domestic Space
This paper draws on recent research examining feminist and everyday geopolitics to focus on the relatively neglected domestic sphere as a space where geopolitical events like the Falklands/Malvinas war are learnt, (re)produced, remembered and contested by young people. It presents qualitative data drawn from interviews with young people from Argentina (Río Gallegos) and the Falkland Islands (Stanley), locations with intimate connections to the 19…
Flagging the nations: Citizens’ active engagements with everyday nationalism in Patagonia, Chile
Geographical scholarship examining banal and everyday nationalism has tended to frame national flags as abstract and passive objects that are taken for granted and incorporated into the daily lives of citizens in mindless ways. In contrast, this paper acknowledges flags as lively material objects that can be enrolled by citizens to make political points and generate certain “affective atmospheres.” It argues that the recognition of agency in deba…
The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’: Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum
Around the globe, people seeking asylum are subject to ever-increasing levels of securitisation, surveillance, hostility and violence. In the UK, successive Labour and Conservative governments have sought to create an increasingly ‘hostile environment’ for people without leave to remain in the country, generating and perpetuating anti-immigrant sentiment in the process. This paper centres attention on the implications of this politics of hostilit…
Brexit, race and migration
This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…
Race, place and young people in the age of Brexit
Connecting ontological (in)securities and generation through the everyday and emotional geopolitics of Falkland Islanders
Debates about the security of British Overseas Territories (OTs) like the Falkland Islands are typically framed through the discourses of formal and practical geopolitics in ways that overlook the perspectives of their citizens. This paper focuses on the voices of two generations of citizens from the Falkland Islands, born before and after the 1982 war, to show how they perceive geopolitics and (in)security in different ways. It uses these empiri…
Reframing Memory in the School Classroom: Remembering the Malvinas War
Narratives of memory have received considerable attention in Argentina but rarely have these been examined in relation to the 1982 Malvinas War. This article focuses on national memory narratives of the war manifest in educational resources and explores how and under what conditions local ways of remembering can transform and/or reproduce such narratives, through research within secondary schools in Río Gallegos, a city in the south of Argentina.…
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people: The Liverpool riots, 1981 and 2011
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories: A comparative view
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Going back to school: Engaging veterans' memories of the Malvinas war in secondary schools in Santa Fe, Argentina
Cuando la nación queda lejos: Fronteras cotidianas en el paso Lago Verde (Aysén-Chile) - Aldea Las Pampas (Chubut-Argentina)
Tema central Cuando la nación queda lejos: fronteras
Race’ or race: Reflections on (self-) censorship and avoidance in research with children
This paper reflects on the ways in which I dealt with (or more often, avoided) ‘difficult’ issues such as ‘race’1 and racism during the ‘doing’, analysis and writing up of research with children (6
Challenging Minority World Privilege: Children's Outdoor Mobilities in Post-apartheid South Africa
Whilst the notion of children's movement has been examined across diverse settings in the minority world, explorations within majority world contexts have remained more sporadic. This paper contributes to an emerging body of literature offering new perspectives on mobility which crossover with, and in some instances challenge, those understandings drawn from the minority world. The manipulation of mobility, central to the existence of the aparthe…
More Unfinished Business: The Falklands/Malvinas, Maritime Claims, and the Spectre of Oil in the South Atlantic
Argentine territorial nationalism revisited: The Malvinas/Falklands dispute and geographies of everyday nationalism
Celebrity geopolitics
Rethinking conceptualisations of adult-imposed restriction and children's experiences of autonomy in outdoor space
This paper calls for more sensitive understandings of children's experiences of autonomy and restriction in outdoor space. The study with children and adults living in a suburban area of Cape Town, South Africa, suggests that the imposition of adult structure and surveillance on childhood should not be automatically perceived as negative. The children's experiences were more nuanced and must be contextualised with reference to the predominant con…
Housing, Security, and Employment in Post-Neoliberal Buenos Aires
The economic and social crisis in Argentina at the end of 2001 ended a decade of explicit free-market or neoliberal policies that had their roots in the country's last military dictatorship (1976-1983). The current challenges facing the city, along with legacies of this recent past, include increasing social inequality, crime, poverty, and the difficulty of managing public services that were comprehensively privatized during the 1990s. State resp…
From the banal to the blatant: Expressions of nationalism in secondary schools in Argentina and the Falkland Islands
Considering nationality and performativity: Undertaking research across the geopolitical divide in the F alkland I slands and A rgentina
This paper explores the substantial challenges of doing research with citizens living in nation‐states on different sides of a geopolitical dispute. It draws on an on‐going research project being undertaken in A rgentina, the F alkland I slands and the UK focusing on tensions in the South Atlantic over the status of the F alkland/ M alvinas I slands. Geographical research that looks to examine the impacts of geopolitics on everyday lives is incre…
Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute: Creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft
Banal Nationalism
Banal nationalism focuses on the mundane, daily reminders of national identity and belonging. Material objects, representations, language, and everyday practices all serve to reproduce national identities in ways that often go unnoticed by citizens and, in the past, academic scholars. Those with an interest in nationalism had previously been drawn to “hotter” expressions of nationhood associated with separatist movements outside Europe and the Un…
Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: Young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands
Young people's geopolitical subjectivities are heavily informed by past events in ways that have not been sufficiently acknowledged in the existing literature on youth geopolitics. This paper demonstrates how work on memory can be brought into dialogue with critical geopolitics to identify the assemblage of socio‐spatial practices that shape how young people learn about geopolitics. It interrogates what memories and their attendant landscape mani…
Reframing Memory in the School Classroom: Remembering the Malvinas War
Narratives of memory have received considerable attention in Argentina but rarely have these been examined in relation to the 1982 Malvinas War. This article focuses on national memory narratives of the war manifest in educational resources and explores how and under what conditions local ways of remembering can transform and/or reproduce such narratives, through research within secondary schools in Río Gallegos, a city in the south of Argentina.…
Cuando la nación queda lejos: Fronteras cotidianas en el paso Lago Verde (Aysén-Chile) - Aldea Las Pampas (Chubut-Argentina)
Tema central Cuando la nación queda lejos: fronteras
Brexit, race and migration
This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…
Heritage, strategic narratives, and the making of geopolitical pasts, presents and futures at Europa Point, Gibraltar
Race, place and young people in the age of Brexit
Flagging the nations: Citizens’ active engagements with everyday nationalism in Patagonia, Chile
Geographical scholarship examining banal and everyday nationalism has tended to frame national flags as abstract and passive objects that are taken for granted and incorporated into the daily lives of citizens in mindless ways. In contrast, this paper acknowledges flags as lively material objects that can be enrolled by citizens to make political points and generate certain “affective atmospheres.” It argues that the recognition of agency in deba…
Young people's everyday landscapes of security and insecurity
Debates about 'security' rarely feature children or younger people, whilst research with children and young people seldom focuses upon issues traditionally found within security studies. Building upon long-standing debates about political geographies of youth and political participation as well as feminist geopolitics and emerging discussions about children's and young people's geopolitics, we chart young people's everyday landscapes of security …
Connecting ontological (in)securities and generation through the everyday and emotional geopolitics of Falkland Islanders
Debates about the security of British Overseas Territories (OTs) like the Falkland Islands are typically framed through the discourses of formal and practical geopolitics in ways that overlook the perspectives of their citizens. This paper focuses on the voices of two generations of citizens from the Falkland Islands, born before and after the 1982 war, to show how they perceive geopolitics and (in)security in different ways. It uses these empiri…
Special Section Introduction: Peripheral Visions: Security By, and For, Whom
In this introduction to the special issue on “Peripheral Visions: Security by, and for, whom?”, we summarise the core themes of the special issue and outline our relational approach to peripheralisation research in security studies. We explain how and why the papers that form part of the special issue address the power geometries that result from, and contour, uneven landscapes of resilience and (in)security. Taking our cue from current scholarsh…
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people: The Liverpool riots, 1981 and 2011
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
Everyday invasions: Fuckland , geopolitics, and the (re)production of insecurity in the Falkland Islands
Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film …
The emotional geopolitics of contested peace: The austerity crisis and the Danish minority of South Schleswig
In 1920, the Treaty of Versailles attempted an innovative solution to the Danish–German boundary dispute, known as the ‘Schleswig-Holstein question’. Two plebiscites asked the populations which state they wished to be governed by, and although the conflict was far from resolved by these votes, the subsequent century has witnessed the stuttering but gradual progression from war to a ‘negative’ and subsequently a ‘positive peace’. However, austerit…
Bringing the Falklands/Malvinas Home: Young People's Everyday Engagements with Geopolitics in Domestic Space
This paper draws on recent research examining feminist and everyday geopolitics to focus on the relatively neglected domestic sphere as a space where geopolitical events like the Falklands/Malvinas war are learnt, (re)produced, remembered and contested by young people. It presents qualitative data drawn from interviews with young people from Argentina (Río Gallegos) and the Falkland Islands (Stanley), locations with intimate connections to the 19…
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